JP2021131955A - Heating cooker and method for creating cooking sequence - Google Patents

Abstract

To create a user's favorite cooking sequence while reducing user's burden.SOLUTION: A heating cooker includes: heating means heating an object to be heated; setting means in which a heating condition of the heating means is set; control means controlling the heating means and performing cooking with heat; and storing means where first cooling sequence information that is set at the start of cooking with heat and a heating condition that is set in the setting means during cooking with heat according to the first cooking sequence information are stored. The control means creates second cooking sequence information according to the first cooking sequence information and the heating condition.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to a cooker and a method of creating a cooking sequence.

In recent years, in cooking cookers, many automatic cooking methods have been provided in which a heating method and a heating time are controlled by using data prepared in advance to automatically heat an object to be heated. Patent Document 1 describes a heating cooker that acquires recipe data including an operation mode and control parameters from an external device and cooks. Then, the heating power and the elapsed time of the recipe data are designated as appropriate values by the cooking condition data corresponding to the cooking use specific stove.

JP-A-2017-106692

Since the amount of heat transferred to the cooked food in the pot differs depending on the material and thickness of the pot, cooking using the cooking cooker of Patent Document 1 may result in insufficient heating of the ingredients or scorching due to overheating of the ingredients. be. Therefore, while cooking using the cooking utensil described in Patent Document 1, the user makes a note of the heating temperature and heating time according to his / her taste and the cooking utensil to be used while observing the heating state of the ingredients. I want to cook at a heating temperature and cooking time that reflects the information in the memo. However, the actual situation is that the user is very busy because he may cut ingredients or add ingredients and seasonings to the pot during cooking. Therefore, it is a burden for the user to make a note of cooking information such as heating temperature and cooking time during cooking.

An object of the present invention is to create a cooking sequence of the user's preference while reducing the burden on the user.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and heat cooking is performed by controlling the heating means for heating the object to be heated, the setting means for setting the heating conditions of the heating means, and the heating means. A memory that stores the control means to be executed, the first cooking sequence information set at the start of cooking, and the heating conditions set in the setting means during cooking according to the first cooking sequence information. The control means includes means and, and the control means creates the second cooking sequence information according to the first cooking sequence information and the heating conditions.

A second invention for solving the above problems is a heating means for heating an object to be heated, a setting means for setting heating conditions of the heating means, and a control means for controlling the heating means to execute cooking. The first cooking sequence information and the first cooking sequence information set at the start of cooking in the cooking sequence creation method of the cooking cooker provided with the communication means for communicating with the external device and the cooking sequence information. It has a step of storing the heating conditions set in the setting means during cooking according to the above, and a step of creating the first cooking sequence information and the second cooking sequence information according to the heating conditions. It is a thing.

According to the present invention, it is possible to create a cooking sequence of the user's preference while reducing the burden on the user.

It is a perspective view of the state in which the induction heating cooker of this invention is incorporated in a system kitchen. It is a control block diagram of the induction heating cooker which concerns on 1st Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation about the cooking end advance notification of the cooking cooker which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a control block diagram of the induction heating cooker which concerns on 2nd Example of this invention.

Hereinafter, examples of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings and the like. The following description shows specific examples of the contents of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these descriptions. Various changes and modifications can be made by those skilled in the art within the scope of the technical idea disclosed in the present specification, and it is planned from the beginning that the configurations of the following examples are appropriately combined. Further, in all the drawings for explaining the present invention, those having the same function may be designated by the same reference numerals, and the repeated description thereof may be omitted. In this embodiment, the built-in type that is fitted into the system kitchen will be described as an example, but a stationary type induction heating cooker that is placed in the kitchen may also be used.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of the induction heating cooker of the present invention.

The induction heating cooker 3 includes a grill unit 4, a front operation unit panel 5, a top plate 6, and the like. Then, the main body 2 of the induction heating cooker 3 is dropped into the opening provided in the system kitchen 1 from above, so that the main body 2 is installed in the system kitchen 1. The grill unit 4 and the front operation unit panel 5 are located on the lower front portion of the system kitchen 1. The front operation unit panel 5 mainly performs operations such as turning on / off the power of the grill unit 4 and selecting / setting a menu.

The induction heating cooker 3 includes a top plate 6 made of heat-resistant glass or the like on which cooking utensils (not shown) such as a pot to be heated are placed. The top plate 6 has mounting portions 3a to 3c on which cooking utensils are mounted. Inside the main body 2, below the mounting portions 3a to 3c, heating coil units 201, which will be described later, are arranged for electromagnetic induction heating of the cooking utensil. A heating coil unit right 201a is provided below the mounting portion right 3a, a heating coil unit left 201b is provided below the mounting portion left 3b, and a heating coil unit center 201c is provided below the mounting portion center 3c. There is. Further, the peripheral edge of the top plate 6 is protected by the plate frame 14.

A top surface operation unit 9 is provided on the front surface (front side) of the top plate 6, and a top surface display unit 10 is provided on the rear side of the top surface operation unit 9. The upper surface operation unit 9 mainly operates the heating coil unit 201. The top surface display unit 10 displays a set state such as thermal power set by the top surface operation unit 9.

Inside the main body 2, a heating coil unit 201 and electronic components, which are heat generating components, and a blower fan (not shown) for cooling these heat generating components and electronic components are provided.

Further, on the upper surface of the rear portion of the main body 2, there are an exhaust port right 8a and an exhaust port left 8b that discharge the waste heat of the heating coil unit 201, which is a heat generating component, and the waste heat after cooling the electronic components to the outside of the main body 2. It is provided. An intake port (not shown) is provided at the rear of the main body 2 and below the exhaust port 8.

The grill unit 4 has a function of baking an object to be heated such as fish, meat, and pizza, and is arranged below the heating coil unit left 201b of the main body 2. Although the grill unit 4 is arranged on the left side of the main body 2, it may be arranged on the right side of the main body 2. Further, the grill unit 4 may be referred to as a roaster or an oven.

Further, the grill unit 4 includes, for example, a door 32 that can be pulled out in the front-rear direction. A handle 11 is provided on the front surface of the door 32, which is used by hand when opening and closing.

FIG. 2 is a control block diagram of the induction heating cooker according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the line of the commercial power supply 210 of the main body 2 is provided with a filter means 211 equipped with a filter circuit, suppresses noise generated from the inverter circuits (203, 204, 205), and makes noise noise commercially available. Prevent leakage to the power supply 210.

The control unit 212 composed of a microcomputer receives input information input from input means such as the front operation unit 5a and the upper surface operation unit 9 provided on the operation panel 5, and displays a display signal on the upper surface display unit 10 which is a display means. Is output.

Further, the control unit 212 outputs a control signal to the heater control circuit 206 to control the energization of the heater 202, which is a heating source, or outputs a control signal to the inverter circuits 203, 204, 205 according to the above-mentioned input information. The electric power supplied to the heating coil units 201a, 201b, and 201c is controlled to execute heating and cooking, and the time for controlling the heater 202 or the inverter circuits 203, 204, and 205 is timed.

Further, the control unit 212 is connected to a notification means 213 that notifies the user of how to use the device, the end of cooking, etc. by music or voice.

Further, the control unit 212 has a storage unit 214 for storing cooking sequence information.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of storing cooking information of the induction heating cooker according to the first embodiment of the present invention as cooking sequence information.

<Step S310>
Operate the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9 to select cooking conditions. The conditions to be selected are, for example, the heating unit to be used, the heating power, and cooking sequence information. The cooking sequence information is information related to cooking in which the heating power and cooking time are determined in advance, such as boiling cooking and hamburger steak cooking. The storage unit 214 stores cooking sequence information set before the start of cooking.

<Step S311>
Press the cooking start button provided on the upper surface operation unit 9.

<Step S312>
In the heating unit selected by the top surface operation unit 9, heating control is performed according to the set cooking sequence information, and heating cooking is started.

<Step S313>
Start timing the heating time. The time for executing the heating control set in the control unit 212 is measured.

Then, after starting the time counting of the heating time, it is determined whether or not the operation of changing the cooking setting information is performed by the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9. The cooking setting information is the heating condition of the heating means, and is information on cooking that can be set by the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9, such as the set heating power and the set time. The cooking setting information may be the value of the heating output (power consumption) set according to the set heating power, or the target temperature for heating control. Here, the set thermal power means a value set by the front operation unit 5a or the upper surface operation unit 9 and displayed on the upper surface display unit 10 or the like. The target temperature is a target value of the temperature calculated based on the information of the infrared sensor 6 that detects the infrared rays radiated from the bottom of the pot and the thermistor that measures the temperature of the back surface of the top plate corresponding to the set thermal power.

<Step S314>
When it is determined that the change operation has been performed, the cooking information is stored in the storage unit 214. The cooking information includes the cooking setting information and the time when the heating control is executed in the cooking setting information. The time described above may be the elapsed time from the time when cooking is started or restarted according to the changed cooking setting information.

<Step S315>
The cooking setting information set in the control unit 212 is changed to the cooking setting information input by the change operation, and the cooking is continued. The execution time of the cooking information may be the elapsed time from the start of cooking at the time when the cooking setting is changed.

<Step S316>
When the cooking end operation is performed by the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9, the heating control is stopped.

<Step S317>
New cooking sequence information (second cooking sequence information) is created according to the cooking information stored in the storage unit 214 in step S314. The new cooking sequence information is, for example, the cooking sequence information set by the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9 before the start of cooking, and the cooking setting changed by the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9 after the start of heating control. Partially updated based on information and cooking information, which is the timed time. It should be noted that, without using the cooking information of the cooking sequence information set at the start of cooking, only the cooking setting information changed by the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9 after the start of heating control and the cooking information which is the time measured. Cooking sequence information may be created based on. Here, when the timed time is smaller than a predetermined value (for example, less than 5 seconds), the cooking setting information is omitted, and the cooking sequence information set at the start of heating cooking and the cooking setting after being removed are omitted. Cooking sequence information may be generated according to the information. As a result, when the user accidentally presses the button of the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9, it is possible to prevent the cooking sequence information including the erroneous information from being created.

<Step S318>
The created new cooking sequence information is stored in the storage unit 214.

The cooking content based on this cooking sequence information is displayed on the upper surface display unit 10 as new cooking sequence information. If you want to cook with the stored cooking sequence, select the cooking sequence information stored in the storage unit 214 in step S310, and perform step S311. As a result, after the start operation, the heating control is automatically executed based on the cooking sequence information without performing the operation of changing the cooking setting.

According to this embodiment, by storing the cooking information when the user cooks as a cooking sequence, if it is desired to perform cooking with the same settings from the next time onward, a new cooking sequence stored in the storage unit 214 is performed. You can cook with the same settings simply by selecting the menu corresponding to the information. That is, the control unit 212 controls each inverter according to the new cooking sequence information. In this embodiment, the cooking setting information changed from the cooking start operation to the cooking end operation is saved. However, a cooking setting memory start / end button is provided on the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9, and among the cooking setting information, from the time the cooking setting memory start button is pressed to the time the cooking setting memory end button is pressed, Only the executed cooking setting information may be stored.

FIG. 4 is a control block diagram of the induction heating cooker according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The control unit 212 is different from the first embodiment in that the control unit 212 has the communication means 215 and is connected to the server 230 via the network 220. Here, the communication means 215 may be directly connected to the network 220, or may be connected to the network 220 via a communication terminal such as a smartphone.

The cooking start time and new cooking sequence information stored in the storage unit 214 can be uploaded to the server 230 via the communication means 215. Further, the uploaded cooking sequence information can be downloaded from the server 230 and set in step S310. As a result, even if the induction cooking device 3 is replaced due to a failure or the like and no new cooking sequence information remains in the storage unit 214, the previously uploaded cooking sequence information can be stored from the server 230 in the storage unit 214 of the induction heating cooker 3. You can restore it to the state before replacement by downloading it to.

The server 230 may have a part of the function of the storage unit 214 of the induction heating cooker 3. In this case, the induction heating cooker 3 executes cooking based on the cooking sequence information stored in the server 230. Further, the server 230 may have a function of processing a part of the steps described with reference to FIG. For example, the server 230 may generate cooking sequence information which is the process of step S317.

Next, an example of utilizing the cooking sequence information uploaded to the server 230 by another user will be described. It is assumed that the server 230 stores the first cooking sequence information uploaded by a certain user and the second to fourth cooking sequence information uploaded by another user. The server 230 searches for cooking sequence information (third cooking sequence information) related to or similar to the first cooking sequence information from the second to fourth cooking sequence information, and uses the found cooking sequence information as a user. It is stored in the storage unit 214 or the server 230 of the induction heating cooker 3 of the above. Alternatively, in order to facilitate a user to find a cooking sequence similar to the first cooking sequence information via the communication means 215, the first cooking sequence information and the similar cooking sequence information are associated with each other. This makes it possible to propose cooking sequence information suitable for the user. The proposed cooking sequence information may be displayed on the display unit included in the induction heating cooker 3, or may be displayed on the display unit included in the communication terminal owned by the user.

If the user mistakenly changes the cooking setting information on the front operation unit 5a or the top operation unit 9 during cooking, there is a risk that defective first cooking sequence information will be created. There is. Here, if there is no defect in the second to fourth cooking sequence information, the user can save or propose cooking sequence information related to or similar to the first cooking sequence information (third cooking sequence information). It is possible to save the trouble of modifying the first cooking sequence information by one's own hand and obtain appropriate cooking sequence information.

Further, it is also possible to communicate with the server 230 at the time of creating the cooking sequence information and modify the cooking sequence information stored in the server 230 to have similar cooking sequence information.

These operations may be performed by the induction heating cooker 3 alone. Further, the application installed in the communication terminal connected to the induction heating cooker 3 may be used.

In each example, the present invention has been described using an induction heating cooker as the heating cooker. However, the present invention is also applicable to heating cookers such as gas cookers and electric heaters.

1 System kitchen 2 Main body 3 Induction heating cooker 3a Mounting part right 3b Mounting part left 3c Mounting part center 4 Grill unit 5 Front operation panel 5a Front operation part 6 Top plate 8a Exhaust port right 8b Exhaust port left 9 Top operation Part 10 Top display part 11 Handle 14 Plate frame 32 Door 201 Heating coil unit 201a Heating coil unit right (heating part)
201b Heating coil unit left (heating part)
201c Heating coil unit center (heating part)
202 heater (heating part)
203 Inverter circuit right 204 Inverter circuit left 205 Inverter circuit center 206 Heater control circuit 210 Commercial power supply 211 Filter means 212 Control unit 213 Notification means 214 Storage unit 215 Communication means 220 Network 230 Server

Claims (6)

A heating means for heating the object to be heated,
A setting means for setting the heating conditions of the heating means and
A control means that controls the heating means to execute cooking, and a control means.
A storage means for storing the first cooking sequence information set at the start of cooking and the heating conditions set in the setting means during cooking according to the first cooking sequence information. With
The control means is a heating cooker that creates a second cooking sequence information according to the first cooking sequence information and the heating conditions. In the heating cooker according to claim 1,
The heating condition is a set thermal power, a heating output value set according to the set thermal power, or a target temperature set according to the set thermal power.
A time measuring means for measuring the time when the control means is controlled under the heating conditions is provided.
The control means responds to the first cooking sequence information and the heating conditions excluding the non-target heating condition, which is the heating condition when the time measured by the time measuring means is smaller than a predetermined value. A cooker that creates the second cooking sequence information. In the heating cooker according to claim 1 or 2.
Equipped with communication means for communicating with external devices
A heating cooker capable of transmitting the second cooking sequence information to an external device via the communication means. Communication for communicating with an external device, a heating means for heating an object to be heated, a setting means for setting heating conditions of the heating means, a control means for controlling the heating means to execute heating cooking, and an external device. In a method of creating a cooking sequence of a cooker equipped with means and
A step of storing the first cooking sequence information set at the start of cooking and the heating conditions set in the setting means during cooking according to the first cooking sequence information.
A cooking sequence creating method comprising the first cooking sequence information and a step of creating a second cooking sequence information according to the heating conditions. In the cooking sequence creating method according to claim 4,
A step in which the external device holds a plurality of cooking sequence information transmitted by a user other than the user of the cooker.
A step in which the external device creates information for proposing a third cooking sequence information related to the second cooking sequence information to the user of the cooking device from the plurality of cooking sequence information. How to create a cooking sequence. In the cooking sequence creating method according to claim 4,
A step in which the external device holds a plurality of cooking sequence information transmitted by a user other than the user of the cooker.
A cooking sequence creation method comprising a step of modifying the second cooking sequence information based on the plurality of cooking sequence information.

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